Episode I - Mark and Kai get started

February 14th, 2011

This was always just meant to be an experiment. It was fun and we liked it (even though we recorded it at 6 a.m. in Mark's timezone) - here you go.

In this episode we're talking about cf.Objective(ANZ) 2010, what's going to happen with cf.Objective(ANZ) 2011, we're covering the big announcement of Adam and Allison passing over the stewardship of ColdFusion to a new team and speak about some other random things: What's Oracle doing to Java and why and why Kai thinks Mercurial lends itself much better to corporate, Windows-based development teams than Git.

Tell us if you like it and how you cope with our weird mishmash of accents - if you like us rambling on about stuff for about an hour every fortnight, we might take it on as a new hobby

Please note: 2 dudes from downunder is a "work in progess" - Any good suggestions welcome!

Nice job guys. Welcome to the world of podcasting. As an idea.. since you are in the future for us in the states can you do us a favor. Let us know how the future is so we are not surprised when we get there.

Onya mates! Here’s hoping that’s the worst of a long series of podcasts from the two of you

All of the topics covered were excellent, but I was especially interested in the Mercurial discussion.

On the surface Hg does seem a lot like Git with better Windows tooling. With the majority of CF developers using Windows, that difference should be enough for Windows developers new to DVCS to consider trying Hg first.

However if you go deeper, there are some conceptual differences that can trip up Git experts learning Hg, or vice versa.

I’m interested in getting the word out to the CF world about Mercurial and sharing what I’ve learnt, so I may start blogging about it soon. Don’t be surprised if you hear from me when the cf.O(ANZ) Call for Speakers go out!

I have to subtract a half-point from Kai for missing a Down Under reference. Bitbucket (the Hg hosting service Kai mentioned) is now owned by Atlassian, the Australian company that makes JIRA and Confluence.

I have an idea for future shows: give a quick rundown of upcoming CF/Flex/AIR events in the region, especially UG meetings. Perhaps _ONE_ of you will be less likely to forget about his own local CFUG meetings that way